Amazing WWII carrier & air combat video (in color)

[NCTexan]

This is an great video that provides some amazing views of Pacific carrier and air combat operations.

It's all in color and with actual gun camera and deck cam footage. Most of this footage was new to me. It really paints a graphic picture of what those hero's did every day.

BTW, The video can be expanded to full screen mode.

Link to video with sound

 

[NCTexan]

This is an great video that provides some amazing views of Pacific carrier and air combat operations.

It's all in color and with actual gun camera and deck cam footage. Most of this footage was new to me. It really paints a graphic picture of what those hero's did every day.

BTW, The video can be expanded to full screen mode.

Link to video with sound

 

[DCC]

Thanks for the link...
dangerous place a flight deck with the gas and bombs...

 

[K.38]

Our neighbor when I was a kid was on the Ticonderoga during WWII. He enlisted in 1936 to serve a hitch and ended staying in until 1946 or 1947.

About the only thing he ever said about the war to us kids was when the planes hit the water it was like hitting concrete.

Whenever I see videos like this or talk to combat vets I realise that the likes of bho, polosi, frank, mutha, kerry etc are not even worth the air they breathe.

God Bless and RIP to all our past hero's.

 

[Peter J.]

Saw about half of these clips before. Thought I seen them all. But some of those I've never seen. Trying to figure out what was burning out of the bottom of that Avenger. Scary stuff.

 

[ingmansinc]

Very interesting to watch. There aren't to many of those fellows left anymore. There is a Marine who lives near me that fought on Iwo Jima, in Korea, and Viet Nam.

 

[Wheelgunner840]

Whenever I see videos like this or talk to combat vets I realize that the likes of bho, pelosi, frank, murtha, kerry etc are not even worth the air they breathe.

Well said!

WG840

 

[Trooperdan]

Man, the massed effect of those 8 .50's on those surface ships was awesom! Even on the bigger ships I'll bet it made being on deck a very uncomfortable place to be!

 

[cmort666]

Originally posted by Trooperdan:
Man, the massed effect of those 8 .50's on those surface ships was awesom! Even on the bigger ships I'll bet it made being on deck a very uncomfortable place to be!

The Japanese typically made things worse for themselves on their cargo ships by keeping things on deck like drums of aviation gasoline and bombs. The Battle of the Bismarck Sea was the original "highway of death".

 

[Texas Star]

This was terrific, but someone posted that the planes carried eight .50 caliber guns. I can't think of any that did, save for the P-47 and some B-25's fitted with eight or more guns in the solid nose version. And they usually also had four additional guns in blisters on the fuselage, in addition to the dorsal and tail guns. They were fearsome strafing machines as well as effective medium bombers. One version even mounted a 75mm cannon!

But these were only occasionally used by the Navy or Marines, and not off of carriers. They called the B-25 the PBJ, I think.

The only B-25's to have launched off of a carrier were those commanded by Doolittle on Apr. 18, 1942. If anyone KNOWS of others, I'd like to learn about them.

Oh: the A-26 Invader that had begun replacing the A-20 by war's end could also mount eight nose guns. But I'm not sure they did until Korea and Vietnam. Again, it was not a naval aircraft.

In watching the video, I was amazed to see how readily the stricken Hellcats seemed to snap in two. THe forces involved in those wrecks must have been sobering.

T-Star